Note: This is an updated version of a video published earlier.

On the evening of 18 November 1997, South African military attache McGill Alexander and his family were taken hostage by fugitive Chen Chin-hsing in their home in Taipei, Taiwan.

Chen was involved in the murder of Pai Hsiao-yen, daughter of actress Pai Bing-bing, and responsible for a string of killings and abductions during the same year.

For Taiwan and its rapacious media, this hostage crisis became one of Taiwan's biggest news stories ever.

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